Review of the roadmap for implementing the SDGs in Timor-Leste: Achievements and limitations
- Courvisanos, Jerry, Boavida, Matias
- Authors: Courvisanos, Jerry , Boavida, Matias
- Date: 2018
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Timor-Leste Studies Association's 'New Research on Timor-Leste' conference, Sixth TLSA, 29th- 30th June, 2017 p. 186-193
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- Description: On 23 September 2015 under Government Resolution No34/2015, the Timor-Leste Government (RDTL) adopted the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for attainment by 2030. The ‘roadmap’, as set up by the Prime Minster (PM), His Excellency Dr Rui Maria de Araújo and his SDG Working Group, specified the need to ‘harmonise’ the SDGs in the context of its strong commitment to the 2011-2030 Strategic Development Plan (SDP). This ‘roadmap’ approach was endorsed by the RDTL (2017). This paper reviews the roadmap by asking the following question: How has the RDTL been able to harmonise the SDGs with the existing SDP that currently guides policy in the economy? Based on an ‘eco- sustainable framework’ originally developed in Courvisanos (2005), this paper identifies both achievements and limitations of this roadmap. A deep six-month country-wide field-based method was undertaken for this review. Elements of a transition path towards an alternative sustainable development economic development for this fledgling nation are noted at the end.
- Authors: Courvisanos, Jerry , Boavida, Matias
- Date: 2018
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Timor-Leste Studies Association's 'New Research on Timor-Leste' conference, Sixth TLSA, 29th- 30th June, 2017 p. 186-193
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- Description: On 23 September 2015 under Government Resolution No34/2015, the Timor-Leste Government (RDTL) adopted the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for attainment by 2030. The ‘roadmap’, as set up by the Prime Minster (PM), His Excellency Dr Rui Maria de Araújo and his SDG Working Group, specified the need to ‘harmonise’ the SDGs in the context of its strong commitment to the 2011-2030 Strategic Development Plan (SDP). This ‘roadmap’ approach was endorsed by the RDTL (2017). This paper reviews the roadmap by asking the following question: How has the RDTL been able to harmonise the SDGs with the existing SDP that currently guides policy in the economy? Based on an ‘eco- sustainable framework’ originally developed in Courvisanos (2005), this paper identifies both achievements and limitations of this roadmap. A deep six-month country-wide field-based method was undertaken for this review. Elements of a transition path towards an alternative sustainable development economic development for this fledgling nation are noted at the end.
Business advisor knowledge and knowledge transference : A conceptual framework
- Labas, Alan, Courvisanos, Jerry, Henson, Sam
- Authors: Labas, Alan , Courvisanos, Jerry , Henson, Sam
- Date: 2015
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: 28th Annual SEAANZ Conference Proceedings; Melbourne, Australia; 1st-3rd July 2015. p. 1-17
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- Description: Prior studies raise the question of how business advisors’ knowledge affects the provision of advice to small business. This paper recognises there is limited understanding of ‘how knowledge is connected to action’ and asks the question of how to research such an issue. A conceptual framework is derived from the literature to guide future empirical analysis exploring small business advisor knowledge and its transference. Two theories underpin this framework and illustrate the important role external advisors play in small business knowledge development - the theory of outside assistance as a knowledge resource, and theory of guided preparation as a guide to action based on advisor knowledge. The framework is underpinned by a critical realist methodology that allows actors (i.e. small business advisors) to operate in a changing environment. This critical realist philosophical lens enables the framework to uncover causal relationship between professional small business advisor knowledge foundations and knowledge transference.
- Authors: Labas, Alan , Courvisanos, Jerry , Henson, Sam
- Date: 2015
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: 28th Annual SEAANZ Conference Proceedings; Melbourne, Australia; 1st-3rd July 2015. p. 1-17
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- Description: Prior studies raise the question of how business advisors’ knowledge affects the provision of advice to small business. This paper recognises there is limited understanding of ‘how knowledge is connected to action’ and asks the question of how to research such an issue. A conceptual framework is derived from the literature to guide future empirical analysis exploring small business advisor knowledge and its transference. Two theories underpin this framework and illustrate the important role external advisors play in small business knowledge development - the theory of outside assistance as a knowledge resource, and theory of guided preparation as a guide to action based on advisor knowledge. The framework is underpinned by a critical realist methodology that allows actors (i.e. small business advisors) to operate in a changing environment. This critical realist philosophical lens enables the framework to uncover causal relationship between professional small business advisor knowledge foundations and knowledge transference.
Building workforce innovation capacity in Australia: A dynamic economic framework for evaluating two strategies
- Cavagnoli, Donatella, Courvisanos, Jerry
- Authors: Cavagnoli, Donatella , Courvisanos, Jerry
- Date: 2013
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Australian Conference of Economists p. 1-40
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- Description: Innovation in Australia has become the top national priority in strengthening competitiveness of firms and generating strong economic development. This paper investigates the building of workforce innovation capacity through human resource management (HRM) practices to foster innovation in Australia. Two HRM strategies are identified as having operated in Australia over 40 years. One is a ‘soft’ HRM strategy based on greater worker autonomy; a strategy which dominated in the 1970s and 1980s. The other is a ‘hard’ HRM strategy based on routine worker performance measurement which has increasingly become more relevant since the 1990s and into the 21st Century as the basis for stronger competitive advantage. A dynamic discrete choice model is developed to provide a method for capturing and explaining variations in the relationship between the two strategies and innovation. This approach reframes the economics of innovation using a unique ‘containment of structure and contingency of agency’ spectrum to explain innovation-successful HRM practices which can account for both internal firm management policies and external-to-the-firm effects of government economic policies. For this reason, this study provides a historical understanding that links effective HRM strategy to building innovation capacity from both firm and government levels. Such experience can assist building a stronger Australian Innovation System so often demanded.
- Authors: Cavagnoli, Donatella , Courvisanos, Jerry
- Date: 2013
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Australian Conference of Economists p. 1-40
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- Description: Innovation in Australia has become the top national priority in strengthening competitiveness of firms and generating strong economic development. This paper investigates the building of workforce innovation capacity through human resource management (HRM) practices to foster innovation in Australia. Two HRM strategies are identified as having operated in Australia over 40 years. One is a ‘soft’ HRM strategy based on greater worker autonomy; a strategy which dominated in the 1970s and 1980s. The other is a ‘hard’ HRM strategy based on routine worker performance measurement which has increasingly become more relevant since the 1990s and into the 21st Century as the basis for stronger competitive advantage. A dynamic discrete choice model is developed to provide a method for capturing and explaining variations in the relationship between the two strategies and innovation. This approach reframes the economics of innovation using a unique ‘containment of structure and contingency of agency’ spectrum to explain innovation-successful HRM practices which can account for both internal firm management policies and external-to-the-firm effects of government economic policies. For this reason, this study provides a historical understanding that links effective HRM strategy to building innovation capacity from both firm and government levels. Such experience can assist building a stronger Australian Innovation System so often demanded.
Management practices and innovation capacity in enterprises
- Smith, Andy, Courvisanos, Jerry, McEachern, Steven, Tuck, Jacqueline
- Authors: Smith, Andy , Courvisanos, Jerry , McEachern, Steven , Tuck, Jacqueline
- Date: 2011
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at AVETRA, Research in VET: Janus- Reflecting back, projecting forward Vol. 2011, p. 1-14
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- Description: This paper reports on a project which seeks to identify the role of human capital formation in promoting innovation in Australian enterprises and the ways in which enterprises can improve their human resource management and learning and development practices to improve their innovation performance. There are a number of factors that affect enterprises' ability to innovate. These include internal factors such as the ability to detect technological changes in the environment, the development of core competencies from which innovation can develop and external factors such as the maturity of the market which the enterprise serves and the impact of government policy to stimulate innovation. A range of studies have suggested that human factors within the enterprise are critical to innovation. However, these studies have not established exactly what practices enterprises need to put in place to improve their 'innovation capacity'. This paper reports the results from the research. The research method involved a survey of over 2,500 business enterprises and seven case studies drawn from the manufacturing, [information and communication technology] ICT and finance industries. The paper will discuss the major findings from the research.
- Description: 2003008977
- Authors: Smith, Andy , Courvisanos, Jerry , McEachern, Steven , Tuck, Jacqueline
- Date: 2011
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at AVETRA, Research in VET: Janus- Reflecting back, projecting forward Vol. 2011, p. 1-14
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- Description: This paper reports on a project which seeks to identify the role of human capital formation in promoting innovation in Australian enterprises and the ways in which enterprises can improve their human resource management and learning and development practices to improve their innovation performance. There are a number of factors that affect enterprises' ability to innovate. These include internal factors such as the ability to detect technological changes in the environment, the development of core competencies from which innovation can develop and external factors such as the maturity of the market which the enterprise serves and the impact of government policy to stimulate innovation. A range of studies have suggested that human factors within the enterprise are critical to innovation. However, these studies have not established exactly what practices enterprises need to put in place to improve their 'innovation capacity'. This paper reports the results from the research. The research method involved a survey of over 2,500 business enterprises and seven case studies drawn from the manufacturing, [information and communication technology] ICT and finance industries. The paper will discuss the major findings from the research.
- Description: 2003008977
Social responsibility of small business in regional Australia
- Moyeen, Abdul, LaPira, Frank, Courvisanos, Jerry
- Authors: Moyeen, Abdul , LaPira, Frank , Courvisanos, Jerry
- Date: 2010
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented 24th Annual Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference: Managing for Unknowable Futures p. 1-25
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- Authors: Moyeen, Abdul , LaPira, Frank , Courvisanos, Jerry
- Date: 2010
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented 24th Annual Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference: Managing for Unknowable Futures p. 1-25
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A tale of two strategies : A framework of analysis for human resource management and innovation - An Australian perspective
- Cavagnoli, Donatella, Courvisanos, Jerry
- Authors: Cavagnoli, Donatella , Courvisanos, Jerry
- Date: 2009
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at 2009 Hawaii International Conference on Business, Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.A. : 12th-15th June 2009 p. 304-320
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- Description: Innovation, both technological and organisational, has become the top national priority in generating strong industrial development in order to stimulate economic development and strengthen competitiveness. From this perspective, it is crucial to identify how various aspects of business management in practice are responding to the challenge of supporting innovation. One crucial aspect under scrutiny lately has been the role of human resource management (HRM) in effectively building the capacity of organisations to innovate through motivation and learning. Recent research has found a positive relationship among HRM policies, innovation and industrial performance. This important relationship has been often mentioned, but without any clear theoretical framework or empirical evidence to identify the type of HRM strategies that support innovation. The aim of this paper is to examine the Australian situation with regard to HRM strategies and their support (or lack thereof) for innovation during the 2000s boom years prior to the recent “Great Recession”. This is done by comparing two distinct HRM systems and strategies implemented in Australia. One is centred around deregulation, the other is centred around regulation. A theoretical framework is developed based on the capability of firms to innovate and how it is strictly related to their ability to substitute between labour inputs, within these two strategies. This framework then provides the basis for examining HRM practices and industrial relations systems in order to identify the difference between the learning practices that are common to successful innovation, and the ones that hamper innovation. The focus of the paper is on the input of innovative individuals. For it is individuals who learn within a frame of reference created by their education and by their social and organisational systems of rewards. The paper will show how through HRM strategies, the process of learning can lead to innovation, but it can also hinder innovation. It is crucial that societies invest in practices that foster and maintain the individual’s motivation to innovate and ability to generate new knowledge.
- Description: 2003007912
- Authors: Cavagnoli, Donatella , Courvisanos, Jerry
- Date: 2009
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at 2009 Hawaii International Conference on Business, Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.A. : 12th-15th June 2009 p. 304-320
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- Description: Innovation, both technological and organisational, has become the top national priority in generating strong industrial development in order to stimulate economic development and strengthen competitiveness. From this perspective, it is crucial to identify how various aspects of business management in practice are responding to the challenge of supporting innovation. One crucial aspect under scrutiny lately has been the role of human resource management (HRM) in effectively building the capacity of organisations to innovate through motivation and learning. Recent research has found a positive relationship among HRM policies, innovation and industrial performance. This important relationship has been often mentioned, but without any clear theoretical framework or empirical evidence to identify the type of HRM strategies that support innovation. The aim of this paper is to examine the Australian situation with regard to HRM strategies and their support (or lack thereof) for innovation during the 2000s boom years prior to the recent “Great Recession”. This is done by comparing two distinct HRM systems and strategies implemented in Australia. One is centred around deregulation, the other is centred around regulation. A theoretical framework is developed based on the capability of firms to innovate and how it is strictly related to their ability to substitute between labour inputs, within these two strategies. This framework then provides the basis for examining HRM practices and industrial relations systems in order to identify the difference between the learning practices that are common to successful innovation, and the ones that hamper innovation. The focus of the paper is on the input of innovative individuals. For it is individuals who learn within a frame of reference created by their education and by their social and organisational systems of rewards. The paper will show how through HRM strategies, the process of learning can lead to innovation, but it can also hinder innovation. It is crucial that societies invest in practices that foster and maintain the individual’s motivation to innovate and ability to generate new knowledge.
- Description: 2003007912
In search of New Atlantis : What can HET on innovation reveal about the path out of the 2009 great recession?
- Authors: Courvisanos, Jerry
- Date: 2009
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at 22nd Conference of the History of Economic Thought Society of Australia, University of Notre Dame, Fremantle, Western Australia : 14th-17th July 2009
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- Description: The 2009 “Great Recession” has created a severe collapse of business expectations to coincide with severe financial overexposure. In this economic climate there is the tendency for the private sector to withdraw from investing in the future and for the public sector to seek to protect the major institutions of capitalism. Both lead to the exclusion of innovation and the concomitant deterioration of the accumulation process. In this context, there have been calls by some prescient economists and politicians to recognise this severe downturn as the opportunity for the generation and implementation of new knowledge. Innovation needs to be generated - particularly eco-innovation into sustainable development - and supported with a large public and private accumulation programme. In about 1623, Francis Bacon wrote a fable about a secret undiscovered island, Bensalem, in which scientific progress through innovation (Bacon’s “instauration”) created an idyllic economy where humanity was in concert with nature. This Bacon juxtaposed with another island, Atlantis, which gained wealth and prominence through its domination over nature, until nature took its revenge. From Adam Smith onwards writings on economics have recognised the power of innovation to drive an economy. Using Bensalem as the ideal, this paper appraises visions of innovation and accumulation from various HET schools (especially Neoclassical, Austrian, Schumpeterian, Post-Keynesian, Ecological) to assess what these schools can contribute to development of an ecologically sustainable economic trajectory out of the 2009 Great Recession.
- Description: 2003007361
- Authors: Courvisanos, Jerry
- Date: 2009
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at 22nd Conference of the History of Economic Thought Society of Australia, University of Notre Dame, Fremantle, Western Australia : 14th-17th July 2009
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- Description: The 2009 “Great Recession” has created a severe collapse of business expectations to coincide with severe financial overexposure. In this economic climate there is the tendency for the private sector to withdraw from investing in the future and for the public sector to seek to protect the major institutions of capitalism. Both lead to the exclusion of innovation and the concomitant deterioration of the accumulation process. In this context, there have been calls by some prescient economists and politicians to recognise this severe downturn as the opportunity for the generation and implementation of new knowledge. Innovation needs to be generated - particularly eco-innovation into sustainable development - and supported with a large public and private accumulation programme. In about 1623, Francis Bacon wrote a fable about a secret undiscovered island, Bensalem, in which scientific progress through innovation (Bacon’s “instauration”) created an idyllic economy where humanity was in concert with nature. This Bacon juxtaposed with another island, Atlantis, which gained wealth and prominence through its domination over nature, until nature took its revenge. From Adam Smith onwards writings on economics have recognised the power of innovation to drive an economy. Using Bensalem as the ideal, this paper appraises visions of innovation and accumulation from various HET schools (especially Neoclassical, Austrian, Schumpeterian, Post-Keynesian, Ecological) to assess what these schools can contribute to development of an ecologically sustainable economic trajectory out of the 2009 Great Recession.
- Description: 2003007361
Innovation policy framework for sustainable development in regional economies : An Australian perspective
- Authors: Courvisanos, Jerry
- Date: 2008
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at 2008 Pacific Northwest Regional Economic Conference : Spirit of Innovation III Forum, Tacoma, Washington, USA : 14th-16th May 2008
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- Description: The paper develops a broad macroeconomic innovation policy framework for ecologically sustainable economic development that can be applied to regional economies, from the perspective of Australia. Australia is one of the three huge per capita greenhouse emitting nations in the world. The increased frequency of drought and dramatic storms, together with mounting international scientific evidence, has raised the spectre of greenhouse gas emissions significantly deteriorating the economic viability of regional communities. Up until now from a regional perspective, ecological concerns of pollution and resource depletion have generally been part of the overall management approach to agriculture and regional economic development – more successful in some places and some time periods than others, but still part of the existing economic paradigm. Greenhouse is “the inconvenient truth” that now faces all regional communities, but its existing economic paradigm is clearly inappropriate for responding effectively and timely to this ecological concern. A completely different economic framework, based on economic activity that is satisficing (under conditions of ecological uncertainty) rather than optimising (under conditions of calculable risk) is required to address the ecological concerns of the future. An “eco-sustainable framework” is developed in this paper which sets out an innovation policy aimed at satisficing towards sustainable regional development from an Australian high-emission economy perspective. The framework is based on the work of two economists, Micha
- Description: 2003006404
- Authors: Courvisanos, Jerry
- Date: 2008
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at 2008 Pacific Northwest Regional Economic Conference : Spirit of Innovation III Forum, Tacoma, Washington, USA : 14th-16th May 2008
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- Description: The paper develops a broad macroeconomic innovation policy framework for ecologically sustainable economic development that can be applied to regional economies, from the perspective of Australia. Australia is one of the three huge per capita greenhouse emitting nations in the world. The increased frequency of drought and dramatic storms, together with mounting international scientific evidence, has raised the spectre of greenhouse gas emissions significantly deteriorating the economic viability of regional communities. Up until now from a regional perspective, ecological concerns of pollution and resource depletion have generally been part of the overall management approach to agriculture and regional economic development – more successful in some places and some time periods than others, but still part of the existing economic paradigm. Greenhouse is “the inconvenient truth” that now faces all regional communities, but its existing economic paradigm is clearly inappropriate for responding effectively and timely to this ecological concern. A completely different economic framework, based on economic activity that is satisficing (under conditions of ecological uncertainty) rather than optimising (under conditions of calculable risk) is required to address the ecological concerns of the future. An “eco-sustainable framework” is developed in this paper which sets out an innovation policy aimed at satisficing towards sustainable regional development from an Australian high-emission economy perspective. The framework is based on the work of two economists, Micha
- Description: 2003006404
The impact of technical change and profit on investment in Australian manufacturing
- Bloch, Harry, Courvisanos, Jerry, Mangano, Maria
- Authors: Bloch, Harry , Courvisanos, Jerry , Mangano, Maria
- Date: 2008
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at Seventh Australian Society of Heterodox Economists Conference, Coogee, New South Wales : 8th-9th December 2008
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- Description: This paper combines Salter’s analysis of capital-embodied technical change with Kalecki’s analysis of financing investment from retained profits to provide a post-Keynesian model of investment with innovation, which is applied to data from Australian manufacturing industries. In the estimated model, profit is used as a measure of the ability to invest, and the rate of labour saving technical change embodied in new equipment (i.e. process innovation) reveals the inducement to invest. These two factors combine to explain the accumulation process and its link to technical progress.
- Description: 2003006397
- Authors: Bloch, Harry , Courvisanos, Jerry , Mangano, Maria
- Date: 2008
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at Seventh Australian Society of Heterodox Economists Conference, Coogee, New South Wales : 8th-9th December 2008
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- Description: This paper combines Salter’s analysis of capital-embodied technical change with Kalecki’s analysis of financing investment from retained profits to provide a post-Keynesian model of investment with innovation, which is applied to data from Australian manufacturing industries. In the estimated model, profit is used as a measure of the ability to invest, and the rate of labour saving technical change embodied in new equipment (i.e. process innovation) reveals the inducement to invest. These two factors combine to explain the accumulation process and its link to technical progress.
- Description: 2003006397
Political aspects of innovation
- Authors: Courvisanos, Jerry
- Date: 2007
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at Sixth Australian Society of Heterodox Economist Conference, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia : 10th-11th December 2007 p. 93-102
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- Description: This paper aims to identify within capitalism the “political aspects” that enhance, but also can undermine, the positive transformational power of innovation policies. As such, this paper follows the approach of Micha
- Description: 2003005192
- Authors: Courvisanos, Jerry
- Date: 2007
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at Sixth Australian Society of Heterodox Economist Conference, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia : 10th-11th December 2007 p. 93-102
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- Description: This paper aims to identify within capitalism the “political aspects” that enhance, but also can undermine, the positive transformational power of innovation policies. As such, this paper follows the approach of Micha
- Description: 2003005192
Model for ICT adoption in developing countries : An application to value creation in agribusiness SMEs
- Sudaryanto, Courvisanos, Jerry
- Authors: Sudaryanto , Courvisanos, Jerry
- Date: 2006
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at 2nd Australiasian Business and Behavioural Sciences Association (ABBSA) Conference: Industry, Market, and Regions, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia : 29th September-1st October 2006
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- Description: Small-to-medium sized agribusiness enterprises (SMAEs) in developing countries have a complicated nature on co-joint business to create a high value of output. Most of the businesses tend to work individually, isolated and uncooperatively. They are not aware that if they do business cooperatively, this will create a higher value of output. Modern sophisticated Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in business can play an important role in enabling cooperation to flourish. In developed countries, ICT adoption in SMAEs has resulted in significant value addition to management improvement and output. In this paper, selected ICT adoption models from SMAEs in developed countries are studied as a benchmark for application to ASEAN developing countries. The aim of this paper is to demonstrate the importance of ICT in SMAEs as a linkage among the agribusiness sub-system in order to reduce both transaction and information cost. A proposed model is developed as an alternative approach for value creation of agribusiness in developing countries.
- Authors: Sudaryanto , Courvisanos, Jerry
- Date: 2006
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at 2nd Australiasian Business and Behavioural Sciences Association (ABBSA) Conference: Industry, Market, and Regions, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia : 29th September-1st October 2006
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- Description: Small-to-medium sized agribusiness enterprises (SMAEs) in developing countries have a complicated nature on co-joint business to create a high value of output. Most of the businesses tend to work individually, isolated and uncooperatively. They are not aware that if they do business cooperatively, this will create a higher value of output. Modern sophisticated Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in business can play an important role in enabling cooperation to flourish. In developed countries, ICT adoption in SMAEs has resulted in significant value addition to management improvement and output. In this paper, selected ICT adoption models from SMAEs in developed countries are studied as a benchmark for application to ASEAN developing countries. The aim of this paper is to demonstrate the importance of ICT in SMAEs as a linkage among the agribusiness sub-system in order to reduce both transaction and information cost. A proposed model is developed as an alternative approach for value creation of agribusiness in developing countries.
The ontology of innovation : Human agency in the pursuit of novelty
- Authors: Courvisanos, Jerry
- Date: 2006
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at the HETSA 2006, Ballarat, Victoria : 4th July, 2006 p. 164-181
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- Description: There is a lack of ontology in the study and explication of innovation. Does this matter? It matters because ‘innovation’ has become an important word in the 21st Century, reflecting all that is modern, progressive and exciting in a complex world. This is reflected in every phase of daily existence in modern capitalist economies. Firms are urged to be innovative to gain or sustain a ‘competitive edge’, consultants advertise their strategic advice as the essence of innovation, local communities’ survival depend on the capacity building that comes from innovation, schools are exalted to have innovation in their curriculum, universities promote themselves as leaders in innovation. Politicians respond to the need for supporting all the above through policies for enhancing such innovation in the nation.
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- Description: 2003001806
- Authors: Courvisanos, Jerry
- Date: 2006
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at the HETSA 2006, Ballarat, Victoria : 4th July, 2006 p. 164-181
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- Description: There is a lack of ontology in the study and explication of innovation. Does this matter? It matters because ‘innovation’ has become an important word in the 21st Century, reflecting all that is modern, progressive and exciting in a complex world. This is reflected in every phase of daily existence in modern capitalist economies. Firms are urged to be innovative to gain or sustain a ‘competitive edge’, consultants advertise their strategic advice as the essence of innovation, local communities’ survival depend on the capacity building that comes from innovation, schools are exalted to have innovation in their curriculum, universities promote themselves as leaders in innovation. Politicians respond to the need for supporting all the above through policies for enhancing such innovation in the nation.
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- Description: 2003001806
The political economy R & D
- Authors: Courvisanos, Jerry
- Date: 2006
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at the International Symposium Knowledge, Finance and Innovation 2006, Dunkerque, France : 26th - 30th September, 2006
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- Description: This paper aims to examine the political economy role of R & D in the context of the innovation dilemma between its roles as a knowledge generating processes and the entrenched power that such knowledge creates.
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- Description: 2003001826
- Authors: Courvisanos, Jerry
- Date: 2006
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at the International Symposium Knowledge, Finance and Innovation 2006, Dunkerque, France : 26th - 30th September, 2006
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- Description: This paper aims to examine the political economy role of R & D in the context of the innovation dilemma between its roles as a knowledge generating processes and the entrenched power that such knowledge creates.
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Developing policy for Australia's small towns : From anthropology to sustainability
- Courvisanos, Jerry, Martin, John
- Authors: Courvisanos, Jerry , Martin, John
- Date: 2005
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at the Centre for Sustainable Regional Communities (CSRC) 2nd National Conference on the future of Australia's Country Towns, Latrobe, Bendigo : 11th February, 2005
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- Description: Over the last three decades the way in which public policy analysts learn about the structure and function of Australia’s small towns has shifted from the intensive, in-depth analysis provided by the anthropologist living in the community (called “community studies”) to a more empirically oriented, demographic-based research carried out at a distance from these places (called “sustainability studies”). Rather than just understanding the functioning of small towns through case studies, recent research emphasis has centred on the more “aggregative” question of small town sustainability in all it forms. This alters the way in which small towns are viewed and complicates the current policy approaches to small town development and change. This paper identifies the two different methodologies implied by these divergent approaches and examines what this means to understanding of small towns and the policy implications that emerge. By reviewing the community studies approach to learning about small towns popular in the 1960s and 1970s, and contrasting this approach with recent, more aggregative approaches to learning about the sustainability of towns; this paper aims to find points of alignment and suggest a broader research framework that incorporates both approaches. This provides a comprehensive understanding of small towns, leading to a more effective development of public policies for these communities.
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- Description: 2003001308
- Authors: Courvisanos, Jerry , Martin, John
- Date: 2005
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at the Centre for Sustainable Regional Communities (CSRC) 2nd National Conference on the future of Australia's Country Towns, Latrobe, Bendigo : 11th February, 2005
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- Description: Over the last three decades the way in which public policy analysts learn about the structure and function of Australia’s small towns has shifted from the intensive, in-depth analysis provided by the anthropologist living in the community (called “community studies”) to a more empirically oriented, demographic-based research carried out at a distance from these places (called “sustainability studies”). Rather than just understanding the functioning of small towns through case studies, recent research emphasis has centred on the more “aggregative” question of small town sustainability in all it forms. This alters the way in which small towns are viewed and complicates the current policy approaches to small town development and change. This paper identifies the two different methodologies implied by these divergent approaches and examines what this means to understanding of small towns and the policy implications that emerge. By reviewing the community studies approach to learning about small towns popular in the 1960s and 1970s, and contrasting this approach with recent, more aggregative approaches to learning about the sustainability of towns; this paper aims to find points of alignment and suggest a broader research framework that incorporates both approaches. This provides a comprehensive understanding of small towns, leading to a more effective development of public policies for these communities.
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- Description: 2003001308
Innovation for regional communities : A research framework
- Authors: Courvisanos, Jerry
- Date: 2003
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at SEGRA 2003: Seventh National Conference, Brisbane : 15th - 17th September, 2003
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- Description: The paper outlines a research framework that can serve as a guide to regional research. This is an inter-disciplinary framework allowing all researchers from any discipline to focus on the regional problematic with the objective of serving a regional community. No research can begin without a perspective on the broad issue for study and deliberation. This presentation begins with the “vulnerability/inability” problematic of the domestic regional (non-urban) situation and the innovation strategy required in addressing the factors underlying this problematic. The framework around this problematic-strategy dimension is an economic model by Micha
- Description: E1
- Description: 2003000578
- Authors: Courvisanos, Jerry
- Date: 2003
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at SEGRA 2003: Seventh National Conference, Brisbane : 15th - 17th September, 2003
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- Description: The paper outlines a research framework that can serve as a guide to regional research. This is an inter-disciplinary framework allowing all researchers from any discipline to focus on the regional problematic with the objective of serving a regional community. No research can begin without a perspective on the broad issue for study and deliberation. This presentation begins with the “vulnerability/inability” problematic of the domestic regional (non-urban) situation and the innovation strategy required in addressing the factors underlying this problematic. The framework around this problematic-strategy dimension is an economic model by Micha
- Description: E1
- Description: 2003000578
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